Wimmenau (French pronunciation: [viməno] or [vimənau][3]) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

In 1365, during the Hundred Years War, a hill near the village was used by English soldiers to monitor the Sparsbach and Moder Valleys and named "Englishberg".

[4] The village was levelled during the Thirty Years War (1618–1648), except for the bell-tower of the Church of Saint Andrew, and was resettled by Swiss immigrants from the Bern area in the mid-seventeenth century.

[4] The lack of farmland led to the emigration of many of the commune's inhabitants to the United States and Argentina during the nineteenth century.

[11] The town of Wimmenau lies along the Mommenheim-Sarreguemines rail line, which connects the cities of Strasbourg, France to Saarbrücken, Germany.

[12] The rail line was built during German rule by the General Division of the Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine; the section through Wimmenau opened 1 May 1895.